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The Network Time Protocol daemon (NTPd) is a daemon program that synchronizes the system time with time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

The Network Time Protocol daemon () is a daemon that synchronizes the system time with time servers using the Network Time Protocol ().

Website: http://www.ntp.org

Man page: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntpd

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntpd

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NTP Version Check

How can I check other NTP server's NTP version without query the server? NTPv3 and NTPv4 network packet is different, and I know I can just catch the packet and analysis it when ntpd is doing sync. However, I think it is not elegant enough. Do you…
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NTP not sync the time continuously, Have to restart the service of NTP then it SYNC in Ubuntu

I am facing one problem. NTP server not sync the time automatically. If I change the the time of system then NTP server not able to correct it. After reboot the service of NTP it sync the time otherwise not. Checked the log also but did not found…
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NTPD slews time when it doesn't need to

I have some odd behaviour running ntpd on a rhel 6.5 machine. This machine runs as a virtual machine on a kvm host (also rhel) and this host has the correct time (within a few ms), and an ntpd that keeps it correct. What I noticed is that after i do…
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Using puppet to manage ntpd certificates

My company is requiring me to implement signed time in ntpd with autokey. One of the requirements for autokey to work is to generate keys on each host. All the clients are part of the same group so they all use the same password. I'd like to not…
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Both my ntp servers are marked as falsetickers in the status

I have a linux box, set up with two ntp servers to sync. This box in case, was extremely out of sync (61 seconds) before it was forced sync. The following outputs are 1 hour after this sync. When checking the ntpq, ntpq> peers …
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ntpd -gq do not working on CentOS 6.4

when I'm running 'ntpd -gq' from CentOS 5.10 (i686) the time is synced, but in CentOS 6.4 (x86_64) the command gets stuck (I need to stop it using ctl+c). Any idea hoe to fix it? EDIT: iptables -L -n -v Chain INPUT (policy DROP 260 packets, 51849…
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ntpd default rate limiting?

I've got about 70 linux instances running on an OpenStack cluster that currently consists of two compute nodes and one controller. Also, these machines live in a RackSpace DC as part of their 'Private Cloud' program, so all of our resources are…
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Why does ntpd need to bind external interfaces to sync the local clock?

I wanted to tighten my security so I don't want to open any ports that are not really needed. I have no intentions of running an ntp server for other people to use, I only run the ntp daemon to keep the local clock synced, so I added these two lines…
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NTP synchronisation not visible in syslog

I am trying to set up a local NTP server for our LAN. I am able run ntpdate server_ip to manually update the time. However, ntp daemon does not seem to be logging anything into syslog, and so I can't tell if any system ever synchronized. #…
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NTP synchronization stays with no reach

Usually, when a machine looses connection completely, ntpd misses a couple polls and marks all sources as failed sanity. Which seems quite logical. But I've met a situation when a server stays marked as current time source while its reach turned…
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CentOS VM, NTP synchronization problems

We have three CentOS 5.9 VMs on an ESX3.5 host. Because of the nature of the services we provide it is required that the NTP time is synchronized and the time is correct on all three of them. However one of them constantly drifts back each day for…
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Security issues with NTPD

I want to sync some two dozen Linux servers which are spread all over the world. I was thinking about using NTPD, but I want to know the security implications of using it: Is there a possible vulnerability? Should I sync them to a local server and…
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using NTP protocol for internal time synchronisation

I have two embedded system that are connected via ethernet. I want them to run synchronously. Using NTP protocol is an option to synchronize them. But this is a isolated system. I don't have an Internet connection. Is it possible to use ntp protocol…
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Is there any way to make ntpd to iteratively consult the server addresses given in the ntp.conf file?

Suppose the machine has an ntp.conf file that looks like this: driftfile server server server For some reason, let us say that the NTP server is not running at the first query to…
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ntpd frequency error -1732 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM

I'm getting this error on my PC: frequency error -1732 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM Any ideas?
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